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The Norwegian constitution was inspired by the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the French revolution in 1789 and the subsequent U. S. and French constitutions.
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Norwegian and constitution
A constitutional assembly declared Norwegian independence, adopted a liberal constitution, and elected Christian Frederick king.
In the peace negotiations, Christian Frederik agreed to relinquish claims to the Norwegian throne and return to Denmark if Sweden would accept the democratic Norwegian constitution and a loose personal union.
The Norwegian constitution, signed by the Eidsvoll assembly on 17 May 1814, transformed Norway from being an absolute monarchy into a constitutional monarchy.
Christian Frederick, who was King of Norway briefly in 1814, the first king of the Norwegian 1814 constitution and struggle for independence, was his great-granduncle.
As the Norwegian military ensign according to the constitution of 1814 was to be a union ensign, the union badge remained on military flags until the dissolution of the union with Sweden.
The constitution was ratified by the assembly on May 16, and signed the following day, the latter date now celebrated as the Norwegian Constitution Day.
The Norwegian High Court of the Realm is warranted by the constitution and was frequently ( mis ) used by the Storting as a political tool to control the government during the 19th century, but no impeachments have been made since 1927.
The events and the constitution of 1814 have a central place in Norwegian identity.
Since amendments are elaborated by politicians not competent in 19th-century Danish, several modern Norwegian spellings have sneaked into the constitution.
Even the official name of the Kingdom of Norway ( Norwegian: Kongeriket Norge / Kongeriket Noreg ) would in fact be the Danish form Kongeriget Norge if taken literally from the constitution.
The 17 May, the date of the signing of the constitution, is celebrated as Norwegian Constitution Day with the school children's flag parades.
Stoughton is known for its Norwegian heritage: It hosts a citywide celebration of Syttende Mai, the Norwegian constitution day, on the weekend closest to May 17.
In 1990 the Norwegian constitution was altered, granting full cognatic primogeniture to the Norwegian throne, meaning that the eldest child, regardless of gender, takes precedence in the line of succession.
Articles 77 – 79 of the Norwegian constitution specifically grant the King of Norway the right to withhold Royal Assent from any bill passed by the Storting, or parliament.
Articles 77 – 79 of the Norwegian constitution specifically grant the King of Norway the right to withhold Royal Assent from any bill passed by the Storting, however, this right has never been exercised by any Norwegian monarch following the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905 ( though it was exercised by Swedish monarchs prior to that time when they ruled Norway ).
Because of its pivotal role in providing independence and establishing democracy in the 19th century, the Norwegian parliament has been very reluctant to change the written constitution of 1814.
In 1990 the Norwegian constitution was altered, granting absolute primogeniture to the Norwegian throne, meaning that the eldest child, regardless of gender, takes precedence in the line of succession.
Article 97 of the Norwegian constitution prohibits any law to be given retroactive effect.
After having made the necessary amendments to the constitution, the Norwegian Storting on 4 November elected Charles XIII of Sweden as King of Norway, creating the union between Sweden and Norway.
Norwegian and was
He says in the page 114 of his autobiography that he was responsible for the null set symbol ( Ø ) and it came from the Norwegian alphabet, with which he alone among the Bourbaki group was familiar.
Atle Selberg ( 14 June 1917 – 6 August 2007 ) was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory.
The name was really derived from the Norwegian blåhval, coined by Svend Foyn shortly after he had perfected the harpoon gun ; the Norwegian scientist G. O. Sars adopted it as the Norwegian common name in 1874.
The Conservative Party of Norway ( Norwegian: Høyre, literally " right ") was formed by the old upper class of state officials and wealthy merchants to fight the populist democracy of the Liberal Party, but lost power in 1884 when parliamentarian government was first practised.
The Icelandic Commonwealth or the Icelandic Free State ( Icelandic: Þjóðveldið ) was the state existing in Iceland between the establishment of the Althing in 930 and the pledge of fealty to the Norwegian king in 1262.
It is believed that the 8-bit AVR architecture and first AVR microcontroller was conceived and designed by two students at the Norwegian Institute of Technology.
The Danish crime story The Rector of Veilbye by Steen Steensen Blicher was written in 1829, and the Norwegian crime novel Mordet på Maskinbygger Rolfsen (" The Murder of Engine Maker Rolfsen ") by Maurits Hansen was published in 1839.
* 1910: The Norwegian research ship Fram was a sailing ship fitted with an auxiliary diesel engine, and was thus the first ocean-going ship with a diesel engine.
At first, Benton blamed that attack on the Norwegian black metal scene, where Deicide's brand of death metal was despised.
Years later, as his fame grew, his non-Disney work was published by the Norwegian publisher Gazette Bok in 2001, in the two hard-cover " Don Rosa Archives " volumes, The Pertwillaby Papers and The Adventures of Captain Kentucky.
Edvard Munch (; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944 ) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.
His picture, Morning ( 1884 ), was displayed at the Norwegian pavilion.
The last person to pass through Ellis Island was a Norwegian merchant seaman by the name of Arne Peterssen in 1954.
He introduced Christianity, and, though he was subsequently murdered, Norwegian supremacy was upheld and continued.
It was released in 1975 and is based on characters from a series of books by Norwegian cartoonist and author Kjell Aukrust.
In Swedish, the word " rolig " means " fun " ( as in " It was a fun party "), while in the closely related languages Danish and Norwegian it means " calm " ( as in " he was calm despite all the furor around him ").
At that point, only one Greenlander was still a deerherd ; the rest about 20 people were still hired Norwegian Sami.
Norwegian and inspired
Munch appears on the Norwegian 1, 000 kroner note, along with pictures inspired by his artwork.
Norwegian band Kaizers Orchestra have a song inspired by lead singer Janove Ottesen's love of White Russians, entitled " Min Kvite Russer ".
Among the established lyrists, Olav H. Hauge transitioned to modernistic and concretist poetry and enjoyed a renaissance, especially with his collection entitled Dropar in austavind, which inspired other, younger Norwegian poets, such as Jan Erik Vold.
Another band by the same name, this one of Norwegian descent, formed around the same time, its name also inspired by the K ' iche ' writings.
It bears a large modern silver crucifix inspired by the memory of a similar silver crucifix in the medieval church and was commissioned and paid for by Norwegian American emigrants in the early twentieth century.
Since 1997, the World Cup jumps in Holmenkollen have been part of the Nordic Tournament, which includes four successive jumps in four Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish ski jumps, inspired by the Four Hills Tournament.
These composers, inspired by Lindeman's collections and Ole Bull's Hardanger fiddling, incorporated Norwegian folk elements into their compositions.
In the 1880s, these choirs inspired the organization of singing societies that sponsored music festivals ; in 1886, five singing clubs joined to become the Union of Scandinavian Singers, and the Norwegian Singers Association of America has met biannually since 1910.
The landscapes of Rondane have inspired many Norwegian writers.
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, writer and gatherer of Norwegian folk tales in the mid-19th century, collected many stories connected with Rondane, including Peer Gynt, the story that inspired Ibsen.
Ibsen was also generally inspired by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen's collection of Norwegian fairy tales, published in 1845 ( Huldre-Eventyr og Folkesagn ).
In 1864, he met Edvard Grieg in Copenhagen and inspired him with the idea of devoting his genius to Norwegian melody and the cultivation of a specifically national art.
In 1988 When released Death in the Blue Lake, inspired by Norwegian author André Bjerke's psychological horror novel of the same name.
* Fenn inspired Norwegian hard rock band Audrey Horne, formed in 2002, named after her character in Twin Peaks.
In contrast to these strong compositions he also shaped a number of lyric piano pieces inspired by nature and Norwegian folk music ( he never borrowed directly from folk music ) published in collections called Tunes and dances from Siljustøl and Easy pieces for piano.
Originally there was no common name for this large mountainous area, however in 1820 the Norwegian geologist and mountaineer, Baltazar Mathias Keilhau ( 1797-1858 ) proposed the name Jotunfjeldene " the mountains of the giants " ( inspired by the German name Riesengebirge ).
Norwegian painter Edvard Munch's famous masterpiece The Scream may have been inspired by depersonalization disorder.
Norwegian music projects Ildjarn and Nidhogg combined their talents to produce two ambient albums, one titled ' Hardangervidda Part I ' ( 2003 ) and the other ' Hardangervidda Part II ' ( 2003 ), inspired entirely by this zone.
In 1973, the Swedish organization Amningshjalpen, was formed following the Norwegian model, which in turn was inspired by LLL signature publication The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding.
His travels inspired him to write several complimentary articles of the United States and the preservation of Norwegian history, literature, and culture in general among the emigrants living there.
Wiedewelt was inspired by Ove Malling's book " Store og gode Handlinger af Danske, Norske og Holstenere " (" Great and Good Deeds of Danes, Norwegian and Holsteiners ") published in 1777.
The Norwegian page " Norske Hemmeligheter " was inspired by Warren but made their own version of the secrets.
Like the stave churches themselves the reliquary is ornamented with dragon-heads on its gables, a feature which several Norwegian medieval reliquaries share and which might have been originally inspired by similar dragon-heads on the silver gilt reliquary of St. Olav on the enshrined on the high altar of the Nidaros Cathedral.
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